New Killing Mars Mideast Peace Prospects

Israeli Strike On Gaza Kills Girl, Wounds Mother In Retaliation For Deadly Hamas Attack

(CBS/ AP)  Palestinian doctors say a 4-year-old girl has been killed and her mother wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip.

Hamas security says an Israeli aircraft targeted a group of militants in the southern Gaza Strip but missed them. Relatives of the girl said that she and her mother were in the yard of a house that was hit by the errant missile.

Israel did not immediately confirm the airstrike.

Thursday's airstrike came shortly after Palestinian mortar fire on a southern Israeli border community. CBS News correspondent Robert Berger reports the attack killed one person and left two seriously wounded.

The mortar fired from the Gaza Strip slammed into a factory in an Israeli kibbutz, said Berger, who added that residents in the border communities often accuse the government and army of failing to protect them, putting further pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to order an invasion of Gaza.

Berger reported that the Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, claimed responsibility for the attack. Israel is reluctant to invade heavily populated Gaza, but its patience is running out.

The attack dealt a new setback to Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers and raised the likelihood of a tough Israeli military reprisal.

Israeli government spokesman David Baker said Hamas "will be held accountable." Israeli defense officials were set to meet Sunday after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert returns from the U.S. to discuss a response.

Berger reports chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia said Thursday that achieving President Bush's goal of a peace agreement with Israel by the end of the year would take a "miracle."

Qureia said the gaps are too wide on core issues like ownership of Jerusalem, refugees' right to return home and Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory. Underlining the sour atmosphere, the Palestinians urged the European Union not to upgrade ties with Israel because of settlement expansion in the West Bank.

If there was a slightly more positive development Thursday, it was the hope that rival Palestinian factions could be headed toward reconciliation.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for new dialogue with Hamas, a year after the Islamic militant group routed his forces and seized control of Gaza Strip. It was a major about face for Abbas, who has vowed not to talk to Hamas until it reverses what he calls the "coup" in Gaza.

Hamas welcomed the gesture. Palestinian officials said Abbas is turning to Hamas because there has been no progress in the peace talks with Israel.

[factsearcher]

Poor palestinians....
they are used and abused by the extremists to blindfully follow a violent cause. These extremists are not willing to comprised in any kind of solution.
....and the neighboring fellow muslims just tell them to fight and look the other way...

[cfin5]

One last thing for Israel''s enemies to consider for their own safety,.....If the gentile empires of the world could not destroy Israel for the last two thousand years when she didn''t have a homeland, government, and an armed to the teeth military with the grit of heart to defend themselves with it,......how do they think they will destroy them now?

[cfin5]

If and when the leaders of Israel come to believe the words of Jehovah, the Lord of Hosts'' words saying that Israel shall never cease to be a nation before him,.....they would not let any other nation on this Earth "molest" them in any way shape or form. I see them, for lack of a better definition,......NEW AMERICA

[downsteamjim]

I read the whole article and it didn''t say a thing about killing Mars. Is that what the Mars Lander did?

[cfin5]

Posted by tcandrews62 at 05:42 PM : Jun 06, 2008----- You are correct. The land was bought and paid for. The Palestinian homeland was to be in Trans Jordan. That is why Arafat tried to take it by force. The Jordanians slaughtered the Palestinians in their refugee camp day after day with artillery fire,.....not a peep from the world. But if Israel so much as lifts a finger in its self defense, the UNITED MUSLIMS (UN) go into a tiz. They''re such a joke. If I was President the first thing I''d do is surround the UN building with the military and tell them to get out,....YESTERDAY!

[TommyCraig]

FeelFree - You need to update your history on what occured prior to the Nation of Israel''s rebirth and recognition by the UN. Jewish settlers who bought-thats right paid for- land in the current state of Israel was attacked by arab''s because of the imams insistance that the land should be muslim land. You also need to look at pictures of the area prior to the 1940''s. It was a wasteland... This is there country. Comprised of both jewish and arab Israelis. The "palestinians" are and have been a prop of the other muslim nations. It is very sad how the palestinian people live and they can thank the other muslim jewish haighters for the way they exist. The other muslim nations do not lift a finger to help these people. The US (whom you quite definetly hate its'' form of government)supplies more food and money for the palestinians who by the way teach there children to haight us and the Israelis in school. Please read a factual not prepositioned feel good book written by phd morons who never left school. USE FACTS not your emotions... It will make you a more upstanding person. Good Luck

[feelfree4u]

Re: "...and you as usual fail to mention that it was Hamas who took over the Gaza that initialy and continually lobs missiles into Israel..."

The Palestinians are obviously out-gunned by the Israelis, but they certainly have the right to try to defend themselves by whatever mens that they have available.

Apparently you failed to read the article prior to commenting. The collapsing welfare/terror-State of Israel just murdered more innocent civilians, compounding once again, their collective punishment war crime against the Palestinians.

"New Killing" is an export that we can always count on from the Zionist extremist terrorist rulers of Israel.

[underdogus]

the d.amn dam testing

[underdogus]

testing d.amn hmm

[underdogus]

and you sure are missing a lot...a lot of brain cells

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